Associated PressJ.R. Smith does his version of the "3 Goggles" in Denver.

Trail Blazers center Marcus Camby is an old pro who seems to know everybody in the league and is well liked by his former teammates.

If you follow him on Twitter, you might have needed some background to understand this tweet he sent out late last night:

"@JR_Swish they pissed at u jr"

The tweet was meant for Denver guard/forward J.R. Smith, Camby's former teammates with the Nuggets. Decoded, it means the Trail Blazers did not appreciate Smith co-opting their "3 Goggles" gesture after he made a three-pointer during the Nuggets' victory over the Blazers in Denver on Tuesday.

The 3 Goggles, as anyone who follows the Blazers surely knows, is the gesture the Blazers make in which they hold up OK signals over both eyes to form a goggles-like look after a Portland player makes a three-pointer.

The gesture is popular enough that there have been signs at the Rose Garden and a T-shirt with it. Players get asked about it all the time. Last week, there was a funny exchange between a few reporters and LaMarcus Aldridge in which a reporter asked Aldridge, who rarely shoots behind the arc, if he would do the 3 Goggles after a three.

"I don’t know," he said. "I might be too happy that I actually made a three-pointer."

Aldridge also added that the least likely Blazer to don 3 Goggles is probably center Joel Przybilla -- not so much because he's 0 for 3 in his career the arc, but because he's so old school he could never bring himself to do it.

Smith sure did, though, in a mocking gesture toward the Blazers' bench after he made one of his three three-pointers, on six attempts, last night in Denver. The Oregonian's Joe Freeman went to ask Smith about it after the game, but Smith was long gone by the time the locker room was opened for the media.